Night Train To Odessa

Elvira Maria Andrushko, a young widow, flees the embattled country­side bound for the safe haven, Odessa. As the night train approaches she is violently separated from her small children and arrives in the seaport alone and traumatized. Bewildered by the city's harshness, alienated by unhelpful authorities, and tormented by her loss, she searches Odessa hoping to find her children.

When she meets Michail Lukashenko, an artisan who ekes out a living with a puppet theatre, she is attracted by ...